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A Life's Work

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

A Life's Work

By Rachel Cusk

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.

Book details

ISBN

9780571350933

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

A Life's Work

Format

Paperback

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